Sara Jane Moore
Sara Jane Moore is now 80 years old and out of prison. She tried to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford in 1975, and was sent to prison until she was released in 2007.
Moore was on the Today Show, where she showed that she wasn't exactly repentant about her actions so long ago.
"I still believe if I hadn’t done it, someone else would.... It was a time people don't remember. We had a war in this country, the Vietnam War," she said on Today. "The only way it was going to change was by revolution."
After she began her sentence she started to think differently about the attack and her role in it.
“[I] had begun to realize that I'd been used. I think that I was misled, that I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error,” she told Matt Lauer. "I had to learn later that everyone else didn't feel that way."
In prison she finally decided that she had made a serious error in shooting Ford.
She says she's done her time now, though, so everyone who thinks she should remain in prison is wrong.
"We have a Constitution, and we have laws. Regardless of who you are, there were conditions to be met for me to be paroled, and I met those conditions," she said. "If people object to that, write your congressman and ask that your law be changed."
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